Policy & Law
31.03.2025

The View from Brussels #11-2025

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 11 (10.03.2025-16.03.2025)

AI: As part of the AI Act, the Commission has adopted an implementing act to govern the establishment and operation of a scientific panel. The panel is to support the AI Office.

Digital retail: The EU and South Korea have negotiated a landmark Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) and are now preparing everything for its signing, as reported by Politico.

AI: The AI Office has published the third draft of the practical guidelines for the General-Purpose AI Code. These are intended to clarify the obligations of providers under the AI Act.

AI data centres: The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected six new locations for AI factories in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Poland and Slovenia.

European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025: The application form has been set up and will be available until 2 June 2025. You can find information on how to apply here.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

Selections of the CW 12 (17.03.2025-23.03.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 30.03.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

Preparatory Bodies:

An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.

Commission:

The agenda of the current Commission meeting was not available at our time of writing. You can potentially find it on the Commission’s website in the near future.

Parliament:

Plenary Sittings

There are no plenary sittings of the European Parliament taking place this week.

Here you can find a list of the upcoming dates of the European Parliament. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here (PDF).

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee and the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield taking place on 18.03.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda item is relevant:

  • Exchange of views on challenges posed by AI, social media and digital platforms to democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee and the Committee on Budgetary Control (as of 19.03.2025) can be found here.

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee (as of 19.03.2025) can be found here.

You can find the current timetables of the LIBE Committee here.

JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)

The agenda for the meeting of the JURI Committee taking place on 18.03.2025 can be found here.

The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs taking place on 18.03.2025 can be found here.

The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee and the Subcommittee on Human Rights taking place on 19.03.2025 can be found here.

The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 18.03.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Energy-intensive industries
  • European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 13.03.2025) can be found here.

IMCO Committee (Internal Market)

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee taking place on 17-18.03.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Working Group on the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial

Intelligence Act • Reporting back to committee by Brando Benifei (S&D), Co-Chair of the Working group

  • ECA special report 03/2025 – Unjustified geo-blocking in e-commerce
  • Recent developments in the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act
  • Exchange of views with the Commission
  • A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and

sustainable transition

  • Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on

adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (AI Liability

Directive)

  • Digital Services Act Enforcement and Implementation
  • Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports

The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee and the ENVI Committee on 19 March 2025 can be found here.

The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 18.02.2025) can be found here.

CULT Committee (Culture and Education)

The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee taking place on 19.03.2025  can be found here.

The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.

Outlook:

An overview of the following session weeks can be found here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary sittings can be found here.

European Court of Justice

You can find the judicial calendar of the CJEU here.

The View from Brussels 11 June 2018

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